Abbasids, second dynasty of caliphs, 50, 62–4 Abdalaziz, Toqay-Timurid khan, 177 Abdallah II, Abulkhayrid-Shaybanid khan, 150, 154, 155–8, 177 Abd al-Latif, Abulkhayrid-Shaybanid khan, 157 Abd al-Rashid, Chaghatayid khan, 165 Abilay, Kazakh khan of the Lesser Horde, 196 Abu l-Ghazi Bahadur Khan, Yadigarid- Shaybanid khan, 183–6 Abulkhayr, Shaybanid khan, 144–5, 174 Abulkhayrid Shaybanids see Shaybanids Abu Muslim, organizer of the “Abbasid revolution” in Khurasan, 63–5 Abu Said, Timurid ruler, Samarkand, 136–7, 141 Afaqiya see Aqtaghliq “Afghan Finger,” 13 Agzybirlik, Turkmen political party, 305 Ahrar, Khwaja Ubaydallah, Naqshbandi shaykh, 140–1; Ahrari lodge in Samarkand, 156–8 Aitmatov, Chingiz, Kyrgyz writer, 45, 239–40, 244; Aitmatov, Torekul, his father, 240 Akaev, Askar, president of Kyrgyzstan, 281, 306 Akbar, Mughal emperor, 152, 155 Akmeshit or Aq Meshit, a town on the lower Syr Darya, 27, 190, 198 Akmolinsk, Aqmola, a city in northern Kazakhstan, now the republic’s capital as Astana, 285–6 Aksu, a town in southern Sinkiang on the Silk Road, 165 Aktogay, a railroad junction in Kazakhstan, 22 Ala al-Din Muhammad Khwarazmshah, 100 Alai, a mountain range in Kyrgyzstan, 12 Alash Orda, a Kazakh political movement, 215 Alatoo or Ala Too, a mountain range in northern Kyrgyzstan and south-eastern Kazakhstan, 15 Index Alexander the Great, 13 Alexandria Eschate, a city founded by Alexander, predecessor of Khujand, 14 Ali, the Prophet Muhammad’s cousin, brother-in-law and first imam of Shia Islam, 11 Alim Khan, the last emir of Bukhara, 222 Alimjan, Hamid, Uzbek poet, 247 Almaty or Alma-Ata, former capital of Kazakhstan, 22, 23, 27 Alp Arslan, Seljukid sultan, victor over the Byzantine emperor, 95 Altai, a mountain range in southen Siberia and Mongolia, 2, 18, 22 Altan Khan, Genghisid khan in Mongolia, 167–8 Altishahr, 16–17, 165, 204 Amir al-muminin, 180 Amu Darya, largest river in Central Asia, 4–9, 12, 182; also known as Oxus and Jayhun Amursana, 172–3 Angara, river-outflow from Lake Baikal, 22 anthems, national, 249–51 Aq süyek (“White bone”), Qara süyek (“Black bone”), terms for the upper and lower strata of pre-modern Kazakh society, 196 Aqtaghliq (“White Mountain” or Afaqiya), Qarataghliq (“Black Mountain” or Ishaqiya), two dervish dynasties ruling southern Sinkiang, 160, 173, 329–30 Arab conquest of Central Asia, 56–62; victory over the Chinese, 67–9 Arab Muhammad I, Yadigarid-Shaybanid khan of Khiva, 183 Aral Sea, viii, 3, 8, 6–9, 27, 293 Ashgabat or Ashkhabad, capital of Turkmenistan, viii, 10 Astana, capital of Kazakhstan, 285–6; previously known as Aqmola (Kazakh) or Akmolinsk (Russian)
Auliye-Ata, a town in south-eastern Kazakhstan, now called Jambul, 24 Ayni, Sadriddin, Tajik writer and public figure, 240–6, 345 Ayuka, Torghut Kalmyk khan on the lower Volga, 175 Azat, Kazakh political party, 305 Baatur Khungtaiji, 170, 173 Babur, Zahir al-Din, Timurid ruler of Fergana and founder of the Mughal empire, 116, 147, 151–3 Baburname, autobiography of Babur, 151–3, 355 Badakhshan, 12–13; see also Gorno- Badakhshan Baikal, a lake in southern Siberia, 20 Baikonur, a site in Kazakhstan, base of Russia’s space program, 27, 286 Bakharzi, Sayf al-Din, Kubravi shaykh and founder of the lodge at Fathabad, 117–19 Baku Commissars, or 26 Baku Commissars, Bolsheviks martyred on Turkmen soil, 312 Balasaghun, a site in northern Kyrgyzstan, one of the four Qarakhanid cities, 24 Balkh, a city in northern Afghanistan, successor of ancient Bactra, 12, 155 Balkhan, Greater and Lesser, mountains in western Turkmenistan, 7 Balkhash, a lake in south-eastern Kazakhstan, 22 Barak or Baraq Khan madrasa in Tashkent, one of the two functioning Islamic seminaries under Soviet rule, 230 Barchuq, Uighur ruler of Qocho, 81, 120–2 Barskaun or Barskoon, way-station on the Silk Road in northern Kyrgyzstan, 25 Barthold, W., 343, 345 Bashkiria, Bashkir Autonomous Republic, Bashqurtistan, viii, xi, 28 Batu, a grandson of Genghis Khan, founder of the Golden Horde, 109 Batuids, 322–3; see also Golden Horde Bayqara, Husayn, 162 Bekovich-Cherkasskiy, commander of an expedition sent by Peter the Great to Khiva, 186, 197 Berke, Batu’s brother and successor, 117 Bih-Afarid, leader of a religious sect and uprising against the Arabs, 64 Bihzad, Timurid painter, 135–6 Bilad al-Turk, “Land of the Turks,” early Arab name for Central Asia beyond Transoxania, 14, 25 Index 361 Binkath, early name of the region around Tashkent, 25 Birlik, Uzbek political movement, 304 Bishbalik, northern capital of the Uighur kingdom of Qocho, 17; Peiting in Chinese Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan, 24; called Frunze in the Soviet period Buddhism, 23, 39–40 Bükey’s Horde, 197 Bukhara, 4; capital of the Samanids, 171; “Bukhara-i Sharif,” 178; Emirate of, 180; People’s Republic of, 221 Bukhari, author of the Sahih, 71 Bulghar, a Turkic people and their realm on the middle Volga, 9 Buriat Autonomous Republic or Buriatia, viii, xi, 21 Burkan Kaldun, a sacred mountain in the Hentei range in Mongolia, 19 Byzantium, 46 Caspian Sea, viii, 2 Catherine the Great, empress of Russia, 196, 200 census, 231 Central Asia: concept of, xi–xii; centrality of, as an asset or liability, 288–9 Chaghatay, Genghis Khan’s second son, founder of the line of the Chaghatayids, 112–13 Chaghatay gurungi, 238 Chaghatayids, 117–22, 159–69, 321–2 Changan, eastern terminus of the Silk Road, capital of Tang China 2, 52 Char Bakr, Juybari-Naqshbandi lodge at Sumitan near Bukhara, 178 Chernyaev, M.G., commander of Tsarist troops that stormed Tashkent, 198 Chevron Oil Company, 287 Chinese Turkestan see Sinkiang Ching or Manchu, last dynasty to rule China, 20 Choibalsan, second president of Mongolia, 298 Chokay, Mustafa, 210 Cholpan, Uzbek poet, martyred by the Bolsheviks, 234 Christianity, 23, 49 Chu, river in northern Kyrgyzstan and southern Kazakhstan, 24 CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), 275 collectivization, 236, 300 Communist Party, 228–9, 283
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